Path: utzoo!utgpu!jarvis.csri.toronto.edu!mailrus!tut.cis.ohio-state.edu!rutgers!texbell!attctc!jolnet!swan From: swan@jolnet.ORPK.IL.US (Joel Swan) Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga Subject: Re: Can someone post the CrossDOS demo? Keywords: MS-DOS floppies Message-ID: <1708@jolnet.ORPK.IL.US> Date: 9 Oct 89 10:28:07 GMT References: <64337@tut.cis.ohio-state.edu> <4836@cps3xx.UUCP> <524@tw-rnd.SanDiego.NCR.COM> <4285@sugar.hackercorp.com> Reply-To: swan@jolnet.UUCP (Joel Swan) Organization: Media Specialties LTD Lines: 36 In article <4285@sugar.hackercorp.com> peter@sugar.hackercorp.com (Peter da Silva) writes: :In article <524@tw-rnd.SanDiego.NCR.COM>, johnl@tw-rnd.SanDiego.NCR.COM (John Lindwall) writes: :> Stick an MSDOS floppy into the internal drive. :> You can access the MS-DOS filesystem on A: :> Now remove the MS-DOS disk, and replace it with an AmigaDOS disk. :> You can access the AmigaDOS filesystem on (the same physical drive) df0: : :What happens if you stick an MS-DOS diskette in and try to access df0:? You get a "NOT A DOS DISK" system requester. WB shows a df0:BAD icon and a "FOO LABEL" at the same time. There are no irritating "NOT A DOS DISK IN UNIT 0" system requesters when you pop an MSDOS or ATARI disk into the drive. : :What happens if you say "copy df0: a: all"? Once again you get a "NOT A DOS DISK" system requester because you're attempting to manipulate a non-AmigaDOS disk. I suppose you'd need to do a copy df1: a: all or copy df0: ram: and copy ram: a:. :-- :Peter "Have you hugged your wolf today" da Silva `-_-' :...texbell!sugar!peter, or peter@sugar.hackercorp.com 'U` :``Back off dude! I'm a topologist!'' : -- Andrew Molitor My big complaint about CrossDOS at this point is the way it turns the Amiga into a pot of molasses while you format|copy|read an MSDOS disk. The thing really eats CPU cycles or something. Would this be because the 68000 is doing all the MFM encoding whereas the amiga uses one of the special chips (blitter?) to do it's encoding? (just a wild guess here) Joel Swan (HD still down- no .sig)